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rakingtalon.bsky.social
@rakingtalon.bsky.social
Former falconer, current Corsair, often gamer, always writer. Owned by three pythons, two very large draft dogs, and a 500-year-old pirate with deep pockets and a substance abuse problem who helps me write his stories sometimes.
Happy to report this was a real thing a couple years back. I wasn't in attendance but am a local. There were some dinos downtown. katu.com/news/local/h...
Hundreds of T-Rex invade Pioneer Courthouse Square, set record
If you were in downtown Portland Friday morning, you might have seen a few Tyrannosaurus Rex roaming around.
katu.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Agree with the message 100%. It's just really sad and demoralizing that a publisher with access to cover artists etc chose to use an AI image depicting the most convoluted card catalog ever, stark concrete background, and no actual library shelves in the process...
June 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I have two of those. 🫠 And a half-edited emotional support draft that I keep on the desktop and visit sometimes.
June 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Fitting that he's using a black hole for his pic, considering it greedily sucks up all matter and light, and destroys everything that gets too close.
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Told him the shoes were from Brooks Brothers.
Shoes were actually from Ringling Brothers.
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I canceled my Amazon account attached to a very old Amazon Visa and had to call in to bug their CS people to do it. It'll be a hit to my credit, but my score is high enough that it won't matter. One inactive account left and that one's on the block too. Did the shopping yesterday.
February 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
dang, man, ouch! 😮 Hope that gets better really soon!
February 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Writing with my co-author tonight, weight pull with one dog tomorrow and Sunday while the other's at a different show. Was gonna make cookies today but ended up doing different adulting instead.
February 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Exhibit A
February 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
For some reason, Swissies obsess about this particular hedgie--in the giant size. Even at 10wks, Tanq didn't want the teeny baby size-appropriate hedgie; he wanted this one that was so big he'd catapult himself over the top of it. We need to keep spares in reserve at all times.
February 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Indeed. And steal all the socks.

Their hobbies are pulling all the things (draft, weight pull, and driving), guarding my chickens, begging for every fruit or veggie they've ever seen, barking at everything, and doing unspeakable things to innocent stuffies.
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs Mayhem and Tanqueray (and an unnamed emotional support hedgie)
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Calling him a worker implies that he actually works. He's been playing golf more than anything, and I bet he doesn't even know what EOs he's been scrawling on with his crayon.
February 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
There's already a wall around the White House and it doesn't seem to have changed anything
February 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Clearly you need to team up with the Unipiper and restore US democracy before it's too late. If I wasn't already wrapped up with a 5-book series right now, I'd be all over this screenplay...
February 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm not sure anything short of an apocalyptic asteroid will make that happen, but I'm here for it if it does...
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Not watching stupid games. Just got home from a weight pull with our two Greater Swiss. One (in my profile pic) did pretty okay (pulled 2020lb a couple of times, 16.5x his body weight), the other...didn't. Flipped off a cybertruck on the freeway just because. Might make shortbread later, idk.
February 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If there was any justice in the world, the bible would spontaneously combust the instant his tiny little hand touched it, but he'll probably insist on using one of his own "bibles" which are about as profane as could be... 😒
January 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM